Melanie

This took me a while to get into. I suppose I was taken aback after reading Cherise Sinclair's Shadowlands series. I knew this was about shifter and not bdsm but this really felt like strange. However, once I got over it, I started seeing the similarities in the writing and in the storytelling. Guess what? It's all great. I love Cherise Sinclair's style. It's clear, concise with the needed emotion to back up the relationship between her characters. People have flaws and consistent characterization, but also evolve with time  and on the page. She's a master in any world with good characters and good stories.

This wasn't uninteresting. For once, there aren't a lot of books about married couples. This was a little too much at one point but the basis for the story, that even married couples can hide their wants and needs, that sometimes you can be together for a while and still need to evolve towards something different or something more... well, it really spoke to me. I loved how strong they were together but how much more they needed. 

This was crazy and could not quite work as a short story because there was too much to unpack. Writing was up to par with the rest of the series so no shocker here.

I enjoyed this slightly more than the first book but it wasn't by much. The writing really does feel it weak, which I find crazy considering how much I enjoyed Werewolves of Wall Street. This definitely needs more time and editing.

I mean, considering how I managed to get through the first book.... a little more wasn't going to hurt me. Still, this didn't save the story.

This was just on the wrong side of corny. I'm a sucker for office romance and werewolf romance so the two combined ? Had a lot of potential. It doesn't reach it because the writing isn't quite strong and the characters aren't well fleshed.

I'm honestly baffled as to how to rate this. I both loved and hated it. It had so many interesting elements but the writing was so all over the place that I'm almost mad about it.  I think I need to read the next one in the series to understand what is symptomatic of the writing and what is symptomatic of the story because right now, I have great ideas that are way underdevelopped, that are all over the place.

Apart from very few exceptions, I'm generally not fond of retelling/POV books. They rarely bring anything to the table. Like I looooved the first book and it's interesting to see Rourke's POV but does it bring anything? Not really. I could have gone without. That said, it's still beautifully written so there's that.

This shouldn't work. But everyone was saying that it worked. So I listened and read this. And you know what? It works. So beautifully. If you manage to get over the setting, it's really perfect. The characters are so endearing and their relationship is so wholesome. I kinda wish I could read this again for the first time.

This was one of my favourite read from Daisy Jane. I think I enjoyed how much Winnie gave Quincy so much shit, sometimes because he deserved it and other times just to annoy him. The push and pull between the two was hot to be honest and was some D.Jane's best.

This was as engaging as the first book. What a lovely series so far. It would be easy to judge it based on its mafia genre, but the entire thing is well thought of and written.

I honestly did not expect liking this as much as I did but considering how fucked up the whole thing is (arranged mafia marriage), the characters were really sweet. I loved how leved-headed Nina was. I wish more heroines were like her.

This was weird. Weirdly interesting and weirdly crazy. I'd rather not go into details because people need to decide for themselves. I'd say that Daisy Jane is quite talented for trying to sell this because it actually works a little. It's not a big sell, but it's a sell anyway.

This was so terribly corny. I expected so much more from this trope in a Daisy Jane book but these two had zero chemistry. 

As per the usual with Daisy Jane, I really never know how I feel with Daisy Jane. Some of her books are hit, some are miss and some are sort of meh. I find her premises somewhat interesting, some of them. Unbelievable, but interesting. But in this case, she introduces a situation that goes from poly to not in a way that's supposed to be natural, but isn't quite. That might be because the characterization is a little miss in this one and is too weak to sustain the depiction of feelings like it should. All anyone gets from this is how horny the FMC is and that she will jump anyone, well not anyone, but any of her three roommates. I get that it's supposed to be all about female empowerment but it really does not come across as such reading this.

This had a lot of potential to go wrong but it turned out really great. The way this was set up with an established couple integrating a long time friend who's been a stable figure in their lives into their bed. And it was wonderful, very human and touching. Everyone had its place in this triad which isn't always easy to do.

I enjoyed this one less than the first one. I think I'm more intrigued by the stories coming than I was about this one. I guess voyeurism isn't high up on my list of kink and the whole cam girl feels a little tired at that point. That said, this has all the qualities of the first book so I can't quite not recommend this. It just wasn't my cup of tea.

It took me a while to get into this but once I did, I found it enjoyable. I've been trying to find a new BDSM author (Sierra Cartwright isn't doing it for me) and it's been hard. Sara Cate's Praise is no Joey W. Hill or Cherise Sinclair but her storytelling is neat, her writing style is very decent, her characters are endearing. 

I kinda dug this. Love the single man falls in love with divorcee mother. The entire thing was hot, cute and funny.

I had trouble getting into Noah's character who was both silent and withdrawn and yet not. His characterization was a little all over the place. That said, this was a cute follow up to the first two books and made for a short sweet second chance romance.

Second book in the King of the Water series. This had a lot of the tropes you can find in a romantic book. I liked the depiction of what happens when your life gets uprooted suddenly and the complexity of the bond of a parent to his child. While Jace wasn't a great love interest at first, he felt like a real person whose head was under the water (pun intended). Millie was a breath of fresh air and the way their relationship evolves was really great.

This was a solid romance. I think I liked that it had swimmers and not ball players because apart from that, it's a fairly generic romance book (age gap, coach's daughter, accidental pregnancy). This had a lot of tropes but it worked! 

 Alright, this whole trilogy was much more fun than I anticipated. I went into it with low expectations because I had been disappointed with another business man alpha boss and his human secretary and it was terrible. This was solid and the entire three books amount to one long book so it was a perfect easy cute read. 

 Alright, this whole trilogy was much more fun than I anticipated. I went into it with low expectations because I had been disappointed with another business man alpha boss and his human secretary and it was terrible. This was solid and the entire three books amount to one long book so it was a perfect easy cute read. 

Alright, this whole trilogy was much more fun than I anticipated. I went into it with low expectations because I had been disappointed with another business man alpha boss and his human secretary and it was terrible. This was solid and the entire three books amount to one long book so it was a perfect easy cute read.